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Originally Posted by adam-machiavelli
After a bloody battle, Ivory Coast just finally got rid of its leader who refused to submit to the wishes of superior authorities. I seriously hope Harper doesn't make us go down such an awful path. It seems implausible now that such a thing could happen in Canada. However, given our government's desire for authoritarian-style mass arrests last summer, nothing should be seen as implausible anymore.
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One thing worth pointing out is that in the highly unlikely event that an incumbent Prime Minister refuses to vacate office, the Governor General, being the Crown's representative and therefore [essentially] the apex of the military (and the paramilitary RCMP) in Canada, would have the ability to call upon the armed forces (probably their own foot guards or more probably the local RCMP detachment in practise) to force the Prime Minister out of office.
The situation in Ivory Coast is fundamentally different because there the President (as in the US and France and elsewhere) is at the apex of the military so there is no one "higher up" in the system to force a departure of a losing incumbent.